Civil Solutions

12/07/2017

Have you ever seen or hear of someone trying to type a command in the command line in Civil 3D 2015 or 2016, and it does not show up and it was working before?

For example you type plot in the command line and it does not show up or you notice it flipped to another drawings command line if you have multiple drawings open. Its act likes it's ignoring the selected drawing and typing in the command line that is in background or hidden.

This issue is usually caused by a few things either the Level of Detail is turned on in the drawing your working in and this can cause the issue or a possible corrupt user profile.

You should be able to resolve the issue by turning off the level of detail function by typing LEVELOFDETAILOFF in the command line.

If this doesn't resolve the issue then you'll need to try resetting your AutoCAD user profile.

Navigate to both these locations on your C: drive and delete the C3D 2015 or C3D 2016 folder depending on which version your trying to fix.

C:\Users\NamedUsers\AppData\Local\Autodesk\C3D 2016

C:\Users\NamedUsers\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\C3D 2016

Then open the registry editor you can do this by going to the run prompt and type regedit then hit enter and this will pull up the registry editor

11/27/2017

You open a drawing created in an earlier version of Civil 3D that contains section views with manual drawn objects in them with Civil 3D 2018 and now all your section views have shifted or have been put all on top of each other in one location. (see below)

Civil 3D 2016 Section View

Civil 3D 2018 Same Section View

This is due to Autodesk adding a new setting to the Civil 3D 2018 group plot styles. There is now a check box under the array tab in the group plot style to Add a drafting buffer size to the space between views. (see below)

By default this box is checked so it adding the drafting buffer when you open the drawings in 2018 to the section views. I know at first this is alarming and your wondering how to fix the issue. You can resolve the issue by unchecking the box under the group plot style and the section views should regenerate and go back to where they were originally. (Note: if the section views don't regenerate automatically do a REGENALL and this will force the section views to update)

You prevent this from happening in the future by Install the Civil 3D 2018.1 update which address this issue so your section views won't shift when first opening the drawing. This update can either be found through using the Autodesk Desktop App or you can download from your Autodesk account page.

11/21/2017

You looked under your Autodesk account and your not seeing where you can download the newest updated version of ReCap and want to know where you can download it. You can download the newest version or any previous releases of ReCap using the link below.

11/03/2017

I came across this when a customer called in and had this issue which was not showing up in earlier versions. The User had embedded Images using Raster Design and never had this issue before. the Images are there and shown and everything functions properly, however every time they open the DWG this error comes up. You can select the "Always Ignore Unresolved References" option on the Error Message. however then you will not get this warning but you can still see the missing references if there are some in the Reference Palette.

Figure 1

This has been submitted to Autodesk and verified as a bug and has been submitted by Autodesk to Development to be corrected.

There are two solutions in the blog above. I have copied them in case the blog gets deleted.

First suggested solution:

"Closing error messages allows users to use AutoCAD 2017.

If you disconnect from the Internet, then start the program, and then reconnect to the Internet, error messages do not show up."

Can you please check to see if the above will stop the error messages, even if it is only temporarily?

I have also found references to similar errors that were browser related:

"This ended up being that IE's document mode was being defaulted to IE7 Standards. This was due to the compatibility mode being automatically set to be used for all intranet sites (Tools > Compatibility View Setting > Display Intranet Sites in Compatibility View)."

Please check this setting and change it to see if the errors continue.

"Older IE versions (IE7 and IE 8) show following error."

Please check your version of IE and let me know what version you are using.

Also, I have a couple of other questions:

1. What OS are you using?

2. What version of Java do you have installed on your system?

3. Since only two of the five systems with AutoCAD 2017 are having issues, can you think of any differences between the two systems and the 3 that are not experiencing the issue? Maybe things like whether or not the users have Admin privileges or not, if the software was installed differently on the 2, or perhaps they are on a different network or subnet should be considered.

Second suggestion Solution:

The issue was actually being caused by the language parameters of the shortcut which is automatically placed on the desktop upon install. (See picture)

****************************************************************************************************FIX: All that needed to be done was to start the application using the EXE. (C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD LT 2017\acadlt.exe)

08/29/2017

If you are experiencing lag and /or performance issues while usingAutoCADor it's vertical based products, try the settings below to increase some of the performance and remove some of the program overhead.

WHIPTHREAD=3

VTENABLE = 0

SELECTIONPREVIEW = 2 or 0 (I have mine set to 0 normally)

LAYOUTREGENCTL = 0

-INPUTSEARCHOPTIONS - Either turn off all the options, or increase the time delay into 5-10 seconds.Type in INPUTSEARCHOPTIONS and turn off Search in System Variables, and set the delay to 3000 milliseconds...this is usually the killer on slower machines

Also go into AutoCAD OPTIONS, and under the Display Tab, turn off Display Paper Shadow (and I generally turn off Display Paper Background).

Remaining in Options, go to the Open and Save Tab and uncheck Display Digital Signature Information.